Prime Minister Den Uyl has ordered an investigation of the Peron affair, where Bernhard paid a bribe to dictator Peron. The accusations are another blow to Bernhard’s shaky public image.

Prince Bernhard, the globetrotting royal businessman accused of being on the take in the Lockheed scandal (TIME, Feb. 23), was charged last week with doing some palm greasing of his own. The Netherlands’ leading newspaper, Amsterdam’s Telegraaf, implicated Bernhard in a $12 million bribe paid 25 years ago to the…

A former Lockheed employee charged that the prince Bernhard had profited royally from sales of Lockheed’s supersonic Starfighter to The Netherlands. Bernhard denied the charges.

Stories about bribe taking by Prince Bernhard had been floating around Amsterdam since last December. At that time Ernest F. Hauser, an American and former Lockheed employee whose credentials include a criminal record (for fraud), charged that the prince had profited royally from sales of Lockheed’s supersonic Starfighter to The…